With Jyothika Sri Dandi and Subha Venkatesan clocking good timings in ladies’s 4x400m relay on the World Relays (the crew at Bahamas seen right here), India has an opportunity of creating the reduce for Paris within the Asian Relays later this month. Indian ladies’s crew on the World Athletics Relays, in Nassau, Bahamas, Monday, Could 6, 2024.
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With each its males’s and girls’s 4x400m relay groups qualifying for this July’s Paris Olympics, there was double pleasure for India on the World Relays in Bahamas on Sunday.
And the blended relay crew, which didn’t make the reduce for the Olympics on the World Relays, will get one other likelihood to qualify for Paris on the Asian Relays in Bangkok on Could 20.
“For the reason that 4x400m women and men have already certified (for Paris), I feel we are going to do solely the blended relay on the Asians,” M.Okay. Rajmohan, the deputy chief athletics coach, advised The Hindu from Thiruvananthapuram — the relay crew’s coaching base — on Tuesday night.
“Anyway, the selectors and the chief coach will determine on that after the Federation Cup (at Bhubaneswar, Could 12-15).”
Rajmohan is assured that the blended relay runners would make the reduce for Paris in Bangkok although they must break the Nationwide document (3:14.34s, Asian Video games, China, October 2023) to attain the feat.
“We’ve got two ladies working 51-plus (cut up timings Jyothika Sri Dandi 51.36s, Subha Venkatesan 51.65, in ladies’s 4x400m at World Relays). And our boys are good, to allow them to undoubtedly go beneath 3:13.50s,” he stated.
With 14 slots for the Olympics already taken in Bahamas, solely two berths for Paris can be found within the blended relay and India has to clock higher than Italy’s 3:13.56s to make it to Paris by the World rankings route and pray that no one else clocks a greater time earlier than the June 30 deadline.
By the way, India clocked 3:20.36s and completed sixth in its blended relay warmth within the first spherical of qualification on Could 4. The facet didn’t begin the second qualification spherical on Sunday, because the crew administration felt that the boys’s and girls’s squads (a few of them have been imagined to have run the blended relay too) had a greater likelihood of qualifying for Paris.
So, who will run the blended relay crew on the Asian Relays?
“That’s not finalised. Rajesh Ramesh (he pulled up with an damage in qualification round-1 which introduced India a DNF in Bahamas) has to return again, Noah Nirmal Tom (the nation’s quickest quartermiler this yr) additionally has to return again… he has some ache in reference to the sciatic nerve, however he’s getting higher now. So I don’t know what they are going to determine.”